Everything I Bought And Sold At The Biggest Book Fair In The Country

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@duggiebader1798 3 ай бұрын

Hi Tom, I used to be a bookbinder, but have since stopped due to the lack of work and - sorry to say book dealers failing to pay. It's such an underappreciated craft that takes hundreds of hours for fine binding. Very unforgiving craft - one mistake - just one and all those hours wasted. Especially repairing old books. There's so many variables that can go wrong. The brass tools are very expensive. Gold leaf has gone through the roof as have calf and grade 1 goat skin. Then there's the hand made paper too - the mills are struggling. And the lady who marbles the end papers to any pattern... she's retiring I've heard. I always grumbled at my letterpress printer mate who could always rectify mistakes. And especially picture framers - don't get me started on them! So please Tom, give them a shout out. It's a dying craft. Love your enthusiasm Tom. P.S. My Uncle, who was a bio chemist at Cambridge university, was a big Tolkien fan. He met Tolkien a number of times (as a student in the 60's), and they shared correspondence. I have my uncles intricate water colour maps of middle earth which he said he adapted from Tolkien's original drawings. My uncle died a few years ago and his partner is still going through his belongings. I can send you pictures if you're interested.

@JoeK93 3 ай бұрын

Was a pleasure to meet you there Tom. Thank you :)

@tomwayling 3 ай бұрын

Likewise! Thanks for coming by!

@GrumpyScotsman 3 ай бұрын

A sweet collection of volumes that would grace any library. Given how hard you work, your entitled to treat yourself to something for your own library. Congratulations on a successful book fair.

@kaeligrace 3 ай бұрын

I don't know how I initially stumbled upon your videos but I've been watching for some time now and am quick to pop on when I see you've posted a new video. I collect and sell vintage girls toys from the 89s-90s and although we collect very different things, like sees like and it's cool to see how similar collectors are, even when collecting vastly different things. Watching from BC, Canada :)

@Dimitrios95 3 ай бұрын

I literally can't get enough of your content, man. Keep up the great work, much love from Greece!

@kimphilpin1062 3 ай бұрын

Your knowledge about books is just so amazing. I enjoy the fact you share this knowledge but also that your excitement about books shows in the way you speak. I especially enjoy when you are able to tell us of the owners of the books by viewing the inscriptions within the books. I find your videos totally fascinating.

@kgsuniquerareandantiquebooks 3 ай бұрын

I'm glad you had a successful book fair!! I love the books that you bought.

@VioletsOnMars 3 ай бұрын

Love your job! I would hyperventilate if I got to hold The Iliad set! And the Tintin books!! Huge fan of Hergé and his Adventures of Tintin series. 🥰

@jethrowegener 3 ай бұрын

Same. Man, I just love books. They are my comfort. I think it's because I'm the son of librarian. I had to be an author who loves books.

@swimteamizzle1114 3 ай бұрын

Shame the Donna Tartt is for a client; I was so excited I sent an inquiry before even getting to that part of the video! A great find; I hope they love it!

@shrek13241 3 ай бұрын

I was going to go would have been my first book fair but I've been ill all last week hopefully i can go to the next one

@tomwayling 3 ай бұрын

I'll be back in York for another bookfair in January!

@Joker-fx6mh 3 ай бұрын

Those Tolkien items are of interest definitely and also those Iliad set.

@MichaelBerthelsen 3 ай бұрын

😍😍😍😍 There are some truly gorgeous pieces here, especially that set of Bible and Book of Common Prayers.

@BrendaApt 3 ай бұрын

Love your informative explanations. I learned so much, thanks

@Parianparlay 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful beautiful books and fantastic you made those sales and came out on top! I call that ‘Success!’ So enjoy your show, thank you, I think your job is just the best, i’d have loved to do that back when I was young. ☺️😘✨✨✨✨✨

@Talyessin63 3 ай бұрын

Every time you show the history of middle earth books I wince, as I had 6 or 7 first editions and gave them to the local opportunity shop as I couldn't read them. I'd hate to think how much they're worth now. I at least kept the Books of Lost tales and Lays of Beleriand. Sigh.

@TheItalianoAssassino 3 ай бұрын

I feel like this man has more money in Tolkien merchandise than most people have in their bank account. 😂

@starmanpower4854 3 ай бұрын

Just dropping by to say you are a really inspiring person and I really appreciate your love for books and their history. I too myself love books and I'm recently starting to research and collect ancient books, so your videos really help me out keeping the dedication up!

@danielknott7447 3 ай бұрын

I'm an avid reader but not a collector. I don't really read anything by the authors yourseem to sell but yet i find you videos fascinating and always watch. Wish i'd have popped along to the York fair as it's quite local but i'll have to give it a try next year.

@danielknott7447 3 ай бұрын

I wrote this comment before i watched the video and I take it back. I'd love a signs copy of the secret history, Will this be available on your site Tom?

@danielknott7447 3 ай бұрын

Damn It. I really need to watch videos to the end before writing comments. ADHD at it's finest.

@s.p.8803 3 ай бұрын

@@danielknott7447 LMAO! You know you can remove your comments, right?

@susprime7018 3 ай бұрын

Sounds a wonderful fair, congratulations.🎉😊

@Merchantivory248 3 ай бұрын

One of my favourite fairs yet. Still thinking about your beautiful Iliad!

@tomwayling 3 ай бұрын

I think of little else

@leewolfe3895 3 ай бұрын

Excellent! I love your channel and I'm also a Tolkien fan. So this was a great video for me. Thank you for sharing.

@oz_jones 3 ай бұрын

"Sorry for sounding a bit down, I was in York yesterday" sounds like a line from the Pythons.

@UlrichBlode-vu7vt 3 ай бұрын

Very nice and beautiful books. I am more interested in science fiction, but how wonderful to see these books which are sometimes more than 100 years old. Tintin is fun too.

@AstrosV 3 ай бұрын

Very cool books!

@OnkelPeters 3 ай бұрын

Well done!

@jethrowegener 3 ай бұрын

"Did I sell enough?" is the question I ask myself as an indie author every single month. I empathise a lot with this! Great video, bruh. I do wonder whether, at this point, it matters at all whether Crichton was real or not. The stories about him make him as real as he will ever be to us, so he may as well be considered a real person. An example of myth becoming so ingrained in our culture that it becomes fact, in a way.

@res_gestae 2 ай бұрын

i have a foulis iliad and odyssey! some of my very favourite books i own!

@jasonfisher8689 3 ай бұрын

Every time I feel bad about buying more books than I read from a used book store, I just have to watch this guy show what he buys ans sells, an I get a little excited about owning physical copies of books.

@Brockblockaa 3 ай бұрын

I was in a great little book shop over the weekend. Their range was amazing. Quite a few Tolkien deluxe editions. Unfortunately I think they were all just slightly overpriced. They had a 2002 3 Volume boxed set of HoME for $400 Australian. I will be back there soon. Hopefully I can haggle a bit.

@oz_jones 3 ай бұрын

Four hundred dollarydoos? That's a ripoff! I hope you engaged in some good old knifey-spoony!

@ChadKWDL 3 ай бұрын

Would you mind doing a video on how you decide prices on books when you are buying from private owners?

@AlecFlackie 3 ай бұрын

I used to have a collection of 'first edition' Tintin books, please don't tell me how much they're worth. Suffice to say I loved them to death.

@aadamtx 3 ай бұрын

Looks like you're finding a nice balance between sales and acquisitions - keep up the good work! Although I did have to laugh at someone "desperate" for a signed FE of The Secret History. Since your last video, my shop got the Houghton Mifflin three-volume LOTR boxed set with the original covers (fourth printing, 1965). I think someone already bought it.

@kurjan1 3 ай бұрын

Oh bloody hell Tom. I was literally typing you out an email about Donna Tartt's book... then you said you sold it! I'm after that book as well.

@oz_jones 3 ай бұрын

Jesting aside, it's interesting that those are the same covers my Tintin books had when I was young, but they were printed in Finnish. This was... 25 years ago or so.

@klausolekristiansen2960 3 ай бұрын

Mine were in Danish, 50 years ago or so. Same covers.

@s.p.8803 3 ай бұрын

Basically all translations reproduced the French/Belgium covers.

@oz_jones 3 ай бұрын

@@s.p.8803 Neat, thought that was the case.

@Richard.HistoryLit 3 ай бұрын

_Nicholas Nickleby_ is a terrific book!

@llywrch7116 3 ай бұрын

Your examples of first editions of The Silmarillion puzzle me. I happen to have a first edition of this book, & instead of the dark blue dust cover, it has a white dust cover. Is this because my copy is the American first edition, & the UK first edition has the dark blue dust cover?

@berits.2346 3 ай бұрын

I wonder what a girst edition of Dorian Grey would cost. Shouldn't be too hard to come by. I'm a novice in book collecting, but it is alluring.

@FabriceLEQUEUX 3 ай бұрын

BONSOIR TOM AVEZ VOUS DES OUVRAGES EN FRANCAIS? MERCI BEAUBOUP

@tomwayling 3 ай бұрын

I have a lovely volume of Moliere bound in vellum - it's available on my website www.tomwayling.co.uk

@monkeyface6139 8 күн бұрын

What other pop stars have you worked with Mick ?

@Bvcggdert 3 ай бұрын

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@CScott-wh5yk 3 ай бұрын

I can’t wait until my paperbacks are 200 years old 😅

@BasTHoorn 3 ай бұрын

Im curious how you price the tintin?

@tomwayling 3 ай бұрын

Based on their condition, and then the relative scarcity of those particular titles in first edition. Some are rarer than others!

@tyramasters-heinrichs921 Ай бұрын

Hello, Tom, from Manitoba, Canada. Question: Are any of the first Canadian published books ( in Canada) have real value? This is a discussion I'm having with a friend, as I believe since most of the first editions published in Canada are printed in Canada, that they would be a limited run and maybe have value for that fact (I must admit I do not know who the printers (outside of Hignell's Printing in Winnipeg) are in Canada)? Thank you for your love of books and sharing it with us out in the world.